Guest lecture I gave at the University of Pennsylvania in November 2023, covering the WebGPU graphics API. Covers a wide range of WebGPU topics, including API overview, best practices, and more.
Links from the lecture:
Slide Deck - https://bit.ly/webgpu-cis-565
Metaballs Demo - https://toji.github.io/webgpu-metaballs/
Babylon Ocean Demo - https://popov72.github.io/OceanDemo/dist/index.html
Render Bundles Demo - https://playground.babylonjs.com/?webgpu#SYQW69#1092
This is a modified version of the same lecture I gave in person in 2022, which you can see here: https://youtu.be/Hm2_bH_8j3k?si=K3a02JffMUHC1GHg&t=148 The audio was a worse on that recording, however, and the slides spent more time comparing WebGPU to WebGL.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:03 WebGL History
08:37 WebGPU Overview
12:47 WebGPU Demos
16:10 Web APIs vs Native APIs
21:30 "Hello Triangle"
39:51 More WebGPU concepts
43:44 Exposing Resources to Shaders
51:00 How WebGPU helps developers
57:48 WebGPU tips
1:13:10 Additional Resources
1:15:45 Q&A Part 1
1:44:03 Career Advice
1:51:38 Q&A Part 2